Publications

Angeline Mampang Alcala, Princess Giulian Vianney B. Salon, Angelo R. Agduma et al. Making it in the city: Public data reveal patterns and drivers of terrestrial mammal occurrence across urban Philippines, 04 May 2026, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9367707/v1]

Sabanal, C. J. M., Dela Serna, P. A. S., Molina, F., Edradan, J. C., Delos Reyes, X. M. P., Cabuyadao, T. S., … Tanalgo, K. C. (2026). Dress code for birds: attack frequency of birds to artificial larvae is mediated by clothing colour in urban green space. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2026.2630790

Baluno, R. A., Mamangkas, G. O., Lidasan, A. K., Agduma, A. R., Hilario-Husain, B. A., Dela Cruz, K. C., & Tanalgo, K. C. (2026). Predation risk of gregarious and aposematic insect larvae in an urban-agricultural landscape. Écoscience, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/11956860.2026.2641879

Tanalgo, K. C. (2025). Gaps in Trait Data and Conservation Impediments from the Raunkiæran Shortfall in a Megadiverse Nation. iScience, 28(12), 114000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.114000 

Tanalgo, K. C., Dela Cruz, K. C., Agduma, A. R., Lidasan, A. K., Edradan, J., Dumayas, R. K. L., Alagdon, J. S., Villaruz, B. D., & Gatoc, G. K. P. (2025). Drivers of extinction risks and shortfalls across terrestrial vertebrates in the Philippine global biodiversity hotspot. Science of The Total Environment, 999, 180274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180274 

López-Bosch, D., Tanalgo, K., Puig-Montserrat, X., Páramo, F., Marín, E., Flaquer, C., & López-Baucells, A. (2025). Prioritizing bat roosts for conservation with a global multicriteria bat roost priority index based on community science. Conservation Biology, e70189. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70189 

Tanalgo, K. C. (2025). Open and FAIR data sharing are building blocks to bolster biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia. Biological Conservation, 307, 111192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111192 

Abreo, N. A., Kouba, A., Sy, E. Y., Yeo, D. C., Vallejo, B. M., Tanalgo, K. C., Gamalo, L. E., Raganas, A. F., Sabanal, B., To, D. A. L., Vilizzi, L., Soto, I., & Haubrock, P. J. (2026). Biological invasions in the Philippines: Challenges and priorities in a megadiverse country. Biological Conservation, 314, 111666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111666 

Tanalgo, K. C., Dela Cruz, K. C., & Russo, D. (2025). Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps. Biological Conservation, 305, 111110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111110 

Tanalgo, K. C., & Hughes, A. C. (2025). Bat Cave Vulnerability Index 3.0 (BCVI-S): An integrative and scalable tool to prioritise bat caves for conservation. Global Ecology and Conservation, 57, e03396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03396

Tanalgo, K. C., Abigail, B., Guerrero, S. J., Garcia, F. G., Lerios, T. E., Garcia, M. E., Jane, R., Murray, S. A., Casim, L. F., Delos Reyes, J. L., Dela Cruz, K. C., Abdullah, S. S., Balase, S. M., Respicio, J. M., Lidasan, A. K., Cabasan, M. T., Pimentel, J. L., Tamon, F. J., Agduma, A. R., . . .  Hughes, A. C. (2025). Reply to Pitogo et al.: No single silver bullet to simply understand war-biodiversity conflict in the Philippines. Npj Biodiversity, 4(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-025-00089-3 

Tanalgo, K. C., Plang, Y., Dela Cruz, K. C., Rubio, M. M., Hilario-Husain, B. A., V. Respicio, J. M., Lidasan, A. K., Abdullah, S. S., N. Fabrero, G. V., A. Ele, R. J., Murray, S. A., Saliling, Y. V., Macatabon, R. A., Casim, L. F., Reyes, J. D., & Agduma, A. R. (2025). Diversity and Ecological Factors Influencing Medicinal Plant Use Among Ethnolinguistic Groups in the Philippines. Integrative Conservation, 4(2), 231-245. https://doi.org/10.1002/inc3.70011 

Edradan, J. C., Lidasan, A. K., M. Sabanal, C. J., S. Dela Serna, P. A., Molina, F., P. Delos Reyes, X. M., Cabuyadao, T. S., Agduma, A. R., Dela Cruz, K. C., & Tanalgo, K. C. (2025). Short-Term Effects of El Niño (2023–2024 ENSO) Drought on Predation Patterns of Lepidopteran Prey in an Urban-Agricultural Ecosystems. Biotropica, 57(5), e70098. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70098 

Tanalgo, K. C., Manampan-Rubio, M., Alvaro-Ele, R. J., Hilario-Husain, B. A., Murray, S. A., Reyes, J. L. D., ... & Agduma, A. R. (2024). Ecological indicators of water quality and marshland impact area (MARia) index of Ligawasan Marsh: a critically important wetland in the Southern Mindanao, Philippines.  Discover Environment, 2(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44274-024-00142-1 

Roquero, J. O., Lidasan, A. K., Balasa, N. K. B., Agduma, A. R., Casim, L. F., Ele, R. J. A., & Tanalgo, K. C. (2024). Predation risk of caterpillar prey is shaped by arthropods and urbanisation in an urban-agricultural landscape: a common garden experiment. Urban Ecosystems, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-024-01587-1

Russo, D., Tanalgo, K. C., Rebelo, H., & Cistrone, L. (2024). To improve or not to improve? The dilemma of “bat-friendly” farmland potentially becoming an ecological trap. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 375, 109215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.109215 

Respicio, J. M., Dela Cruz, K. C., Hughes, A. C., & Tanalgo, K. C. (2024). The behavioural costs of overcrowding for gregarious cave-dwelling bats. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14072 

Plang, Y. A., Tanalgo, K. C., Dela Cruz, K. C., Rubio, M. M., Hilario-Husain, B. A., Respicio, J. M. V., ... & Agduma, A. R. (2024). Herbolario v. 1: building database for medicinal plants used by ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines to support indigenous knowledge conservation. Discover Plants, 1(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44372-024-00037-8

Agduma, A. R., Tanalgo, K. C., Millondaga, A. M., Respicio, J. M. V., Cruz, K. C. D., Lidasan, A. K., ... & Cao, K. F. (2024). Knowledge shortfalls and research priorities for Philippine mangroves in the fast-changing world. Ocean & Coastal Management, 255, 107211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107211 

Guerrero, J. J. G., Agduma, A. R., Tanalgo, K. C., Abisado-Duque, R. G., & Navarro, F. J. B. (2024). Minimizing Environmental Footprints of Biological Wastes through Biosafety and Biosecurity Measures. In Biosafety and Biosecurity (pp. 93-119). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003426219-6 

Hilario-Husain, B.A., Tanalgo, K. C., Guerrero, S. J., Garcia, F. G., Lerios, T. E., Garcia, M. E., Jane, R., Murray, S. A., Casim, L. F., Delos Reyes, J. L., Dela Cruz, K. C., Abdullah, S. S., Balase, S. M., Respicio, J. M., Lidasan, A. K., Buday, Z. S., Cabasan, M. T., Pimentel, J. L., Tamon, F. J., . . .  Agduma, A. R. (2024). Caught in the crossfire: Biodiversity conservation paradox of sociopolitical conflict. Npj Biodiversity, 3(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-024-00044-8 

Saccò, M., Mammola, S., Altermatt, F., Alther, R., Bolpagni, R., Brancelj, A., Tanalgo, K.C..... & Reinecke, R. (2024). Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem. Global Change Biology, 30(1), e17066. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17066 

Tanalgo, K. C., Sritongchuay, T., Agduma, A. R., Cruz, K. C. D., & Hughes, A. C. (2023). Are we hunting bats to extinction? Worldwide patterns of hunting risk in bats are driven by species ecology and regional economics. Biological Conservation, 279, 109944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.109944 

Tanalgo, K.C., Cruz, K.D., Agduma, A., Respicio, J.M., Abdullah, S., Alvaro-Ele, R.J., Hilario-Husain, B.A., Manampan-Rubio, M., Murray, S., Casim, L., Pantog, A.M., Balase, S.M., Abdulkasan, R.M., Aguirre, C.A., Banto, N., Broncate, S.M., Dimacaling, A., Fabrero, G.V., Lidasan, A., Lingcob, A., Millondaga, A., Panilla, K.F., Sinadjan, C.Q., Unte, N., (2023). The MOBIOS+: A FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) database for Mindanao’s terrestrial biodiversity. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11, e110016. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e110016 

Meierhofer, M. B., Johnson, J. S., Perez-Jimenez, J., Ito, F., Webela, P. W., Wiantoro, S., Bernard, E., Tanalgo, K. C., Hughes, A., Cardoso, P., Lilley, T., & Mammola, S. (2023). Effective conservation of subterranean-roosting bats. Conservation Biology, 00, e14157. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14157 

Lidasan, A. K.., Roquero, J. O.., Balasa, N. K. B.., Agduma, A., Ele, R.J. A.. & Tanalgo, K.C. (2023). Predator types, urbanization, and tree cover drive top-down control of herbivorous and carnivorous preys in an urban agroecosystem. EcoScience, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/11956860.2023.2244301

Hughes, A. C., Than, K. Z., Tanalgo, K. C., Agung, A. P., Alexander, T., Kane, Y., ... & Karlsson, C. (2023). Who is publishing in ecology and evolution? the underrepresentation of women and the Global South. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11, 1211211. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1211211

Abdullah, S. S., Dela Cruz, K. C., Casim, L. F., Agduma, A. R., & Tanalgo, K. C. (2023). Leaping Forward or Crawling Backward? Efforts and Biases in Amphibian and Reptile Research on a Megadiverse Faunal Region in the Philippines. Conservation, 3(3), 363-378. https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation3030025

Dela Cruz, K. C., Abdullah, S. S., Agduma, A. R., & Tanalgo, K. C. (2023). Early twenty-first century biodiversity data pinpoint key targets for bird and mammal conservation in Mindanao, Southern Philippines. Biodiversity, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14888386.2023.2210119

Agduma, A. R., Garcia, F. G. N., Pimentel, J. L., Cabasan, M. T. N., Ele, R. J. A., Rubio, M. M., Murray, S. A., Husain, B. A. H., Dela Cruz, K. C., Abdullah, S. S., Balase, S. P., & Tanalgo, K. C. (2023). Overview of Priorities, Threats, and Challenges to Biodiversity Conservation in Southern Philippines. Regional Sustainability, 4 (2023) 203–213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsus.2023.05.003

Balasa, N. K., Lidasan, A. K., Roquero, J. O., Casim, L. F., Agduma, A. R.  & Tanalgo, K. C. 2023. Fruit Color Preference of Frugivorous Birds in an Agroecosystem in Southcentral Mindanao, Philippines. Birds, 4, 3390. https://doi.org/10.3390/birds4020016

Fabrero, G. V. N., Manceras, L. J. S., Agduma, A. R., & Tanalgo, K. C. (2023). Uncovering the Effects of COVID-19 Mask Wearing on Bird Flight Initiation Distance in Urbanized Areas in the Southern Philippines. Animals, 13(8), 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13081289

Deleva, S., Toshcova, N., Kolev, M., & Tanalgo, K.C. (2023). Important underground roosts for bats in Bulgaria: current state and priorities for conservation. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11: e98734. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e98734

Tanalgo, K.C., Oliveira H.F.M., Hughes A.C. (2022). Mapping global conservation priorities and habitat vulnerabilities for cave-dwelling bats in a changing world. Science of The Total Environment, 156909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156909

Tanalgo, K.C., Tabora, J. A. G., de Oliveira, H. F. M., Haelewaters, D., Beranek, C. T., Otálora-Ardila, A., ... & Hughes, A. C. (2022). DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves. Nature Scientific Data, 9(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01234-4 

Sritongchuay, T., Dalsgaard, B., Wayo, K., Zou, Y., Simla, P., Tanalgo, K. C., Orr M.C., & Hughes, A. C. (2022). Landscape-level effects on pollination networks and fruit-set of crops in tropical small-holder agroecosystems. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 108112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108112

Ferreira, R. L., Bernard, E., da Cruz Júnior, F. W., Piló, L. B., Calux, A., Souza-Silva, M., ... Tanalgo, K.C., & Frick, W. F. (2022). Brazilian cave heritage under siege. Science, 375, 1238-1239. https://doi.org./10.1126/science.abo1973

Tanalgo K.C., McConkey K., Racey P., Aziz S.A., Sritongchuay T., Hughes A., & Mildenstein T. (2022). Understanding bat ecosystem services on a global scale requires a caution and a wider collaboration: a critical evaluation of Ramirez-Francel et al. (2022). Integrative Zoology 1-6.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12646  

Ma, Z., Tanalgo, K. C., Xu, Q., Li, W., Wu, S., Ji, Q., ... & Wang, R. (2022). Influence of tea-Pleurotus ostreatus intercropping on soil fungal diversity and community structure. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2021-0123

Tanalgo, K. C. (2022). On the Observed Blattellid (Blattodea) Pollinivory on Hippeastrum puniceum (Lam.) Voss (Amaryllidaceae) in Southcentral Mindanao, Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science, 151(3), 1109-1111 

Tanalgo, K. C., Sritongchuay, T., & Hughes, A. C. (2021). Seasonal Activity of Fruit Bats in a Monoculture Rubber and Oil Palm Plantation in the Southern Philippines. Conservation, 1(3), 258-270. https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation1030020

Taweesub, C., Tanalgo, K. C., Sritongchuay, T., & Hughes, A. C. (2021). Understanding global patterns of insectivorous bat dietary research. Journal of Bat Research & Conservation, 14(1), 134. https://doi.org/10.14709/BarbJ.14.1.2021.12 

Tanalgo, K. C., & Hughes, A. C. (2021). The potential of bat-watching tourism in raising public awareness towards bat conservation in the Philippines. Environmental Challenges, 4, 100140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100140

Aziz, S. A., McConkey, K. R., Tanalgo, K. C., Sritongchuay, T., Low, M. R., Yong, J. Y., ... & Racey, P. A. (2021). The critical importance of Old World fruit bats for healthy ecosystems and economies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 641411. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.641411

Low, M. R., Hoong, W. Z., Shen, Z., Murugavel, B., Mariner, N., Paguntalan, L. M., ... Tanalgo, K.C., & Aziz, S. A. (2021). Bane or blessing? Reviewing cultural values of bats across the Asia-Pacific region. Journal of Ethnobiology, 41(1), 18-34. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-41.1.18

Gracia Jr, A. G., Mohagan, A. B., Burlat, J. C., Welfredo Jr, L. Y., Mondalo, J., Acma, F. M., ... & Tanalgo, K. C. (2021). Conservation ecology of birds in Mt. Hilong-hilong, a Key Biodiversity Area on Mindanao Island, the Philippines. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 13(5), 18110-18121. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.6760.13.5.18110-18121

Guerrero J.J.G., Tanalgo K.C., & Abante C.G. (2021). Role of academic institution to inform regional-scale biodiversity conservation in the eastern Philippines. Journal of Tropical Life Science 11, 241-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.11594/jtls.11.02.14

Tanalgo, K. C., Monfort, N., & Hughes, A. C. (2020). Attacked from above and below: new ethological evidence on the predation strategies of corvid and varanid on a cave-roosting bat. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 32(6), 596-610. https://doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2020.1771773 

Tanalgo, K. C., Achondo, M. J. M. M., & Hughes, A. C. (2019). Small things matter: the value of rapid biodiversity surveys to understanding local bird diversity patterns in Southcentral Mindanao, Philippines. Tropical Conservation Science, 12, 1940082919869482. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940082919869482

Ferlian, O., Eisenhauer, N., Aguirrebengoa, M., Camara, M., Ramirez‐Rojas, I., Santos, F., ... & Tanalgo K.C., Thakur, M. P. (2017). Invasive earthworms erode soil biodiversity: A meta‐analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87(1), 162-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12746

Tanalgo, K. C. (2017). Wildlife hunting by indigenous people in a Philippine protected area: a perspective from Mt. Apo National Park, Mindanao Island. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 9(6), 10307-10313. http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2967.9.6.10307-10313 

Tanalgo, K. C., Casim, L. F., & Tabora, J. A. G. (2017). A Preliminary study on bats in a Small-scale Mining Site in South central Mindanao, Philippines. Ecological Questions, 25, 85-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/EQ.2017.007

Tanalgo, K. C., & Hughes, A. C. (2017). First evidence of nectarivory by four-clawed gecko, Gehyra mutilata (Wiegmann, 1834)(Squamata: Gekkonidae) on a bat-pollinated Calabash tree (Crescentia cujete L.)(Bignoniaceae) in Southcentral Mindanao, Philippines. Herpetology Notes, 10, 493-496 

Jumao-as C, Cabasan MTN, Manceras LJ, Tabora JAG, Tangonan NG, & Tanalgo, K. C. (2017). Presence of important agro-economic fungi in common frugivorous bats from southcentral Mindanao, Philippines. Current Research in Environmental & Applied Mycology, 7(2), 73-81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5943/cream/7/2/3

Tanalgo K.C., Teves R., Salvana F.P., & Baleva R.E. (2016). Bat-human interaction in caves of south central Mindanao, Philippines. Wildlife Biology in Practice 12, 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2461/wbp.2016.12.2

Tanalgo, K. C., & Tabora, J. A. G. (2015). Cave-dwelling bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) and conservation concerns in South central Mindanao, Philippines. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 7(15), 8185-8194. http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.1757.7.15.8185-8194

Tanalgo, K. C., Pineda, J. A. F., Agravante, M. E., & Amerol, Z. M. (2015). Bird diversity and structure in different land-use types in lowland south-central Mindanao, Philippines. Tropical Life Sciences Research, 26(2), 85.

Achondo, M. J. M. M., Casim, L. F., Tanalgo, K. C., Agduma, A. R., Bretaña, B.L.P., ... & Bello, V. P. (2014). Occurrence and abundance of fruit bats in selected conservation areas of North Cotabato, Philippines. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology, 3(1), 3-7.

Tanalgo, K. C., Achondo, M. J. M. M., Bretaña, B. L. P., Casim, L. F., & Tabora, J. A. G. (2012). Wing ecomorphology and flight performance of bats in Pisan Caves, Kabacan, North Cotabato, Philippines. Asian Journal of Biodiversity, 3(1), 1-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.7828/ajob.v3i1.85

Achondo, M. J. M. M., Casim, L., Bello, V. P., Tanalgo, K. C., Agduma, A. R., Bretaña, B. L. P., ... & Supremo, J. P. (2011). Rapid assessment and feeding guilds of birds in selected rubber and oil palm plantations in North Cotabato. Asian Journal of Biodiversity, 2(1), 6-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.7828/ajob.v2i1.94